The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-02-11
MYRTLES VALENTINE"
1t Brou hit Health toya Little Ger
man Girl.

''Why, Myrtle, where have you been
all this time? the day scholars have
been gone half an hour!" cried trio
of girls clustered about the school
room register, one cold, cloudy after
noon in February, as a frightened,
auburn-haired maiden entered with a
book in her hand, and joined the
group,
1.-The Fraulein must have been in
bad humor to keep her pet pupil so
long added one Of the party s.No,
the German lesson was particularly
harmonious to-day, but / have been
talking to Fraulein Won Hillern about
poor Hilda;' said the new conner. 'Do
You know, girls, how very i'll she isP'
''Why! / thought the fever had quite
left herl' exclaimed Bertha Grey. $50
IL has, but has left her SO weak and
iow-spiritcd, nothing can rouse her
Fraulcin has to leave her niece alone
when she comes TO school. and Hilda
can not read much on account of her
head; so she lies there and worries be-
cause she IS running behind in her
classes, and is such an expense to her
aunt. 1t would break your heart to
hear poor Fraulein say: Mine little
Hilda, she is all l have in the world,
and the Herr Doctor says she will die,
if there come not a change soon. A
little diversion is what She wants, but
where is the little diversion TO come
fromH And then she covered her face
with her handkerchief, and sobbed SO.
1 just had to sit down and cry too"
I'VE all know how lIind-hearted YOU
are, Myrtle said Daisy Dean, putting
her arm round her friends waist.
+Will You believe, girls, I caught her
this morning fishing half-drowned fly
out of her inkstand, and driving its
wings IN the sun?" Mistaken charity
thai, little Miss Bergh," said May
Carlisle, "but ann really sorry to hear
about poor Hilda. What a Jolly girl
she used to hel the life Of our class at
one .i4fie. 1 wish we could do some
ching for her Il have been thinking
of that, said Myrtle. 1--WE could not
cure her, of course, but day after to-
morrow is the fourteenth, and ! thought
1T might cheer her up q bit, if we should
each send her a valentine. What do
you think of it?'' 1--WE will, we will, -
cried the other three in q breath.
Il viii get a gorgeous embossed af-
fair, all hearts and darts, and fond low
er's knots" said Bertha, land tie It up
in a box with true-blue ribbon" And
mine shall be a lovely bunch Of tea
roses, said Daisy, "that win brighten
up the shabby little room where she
lives. Il ann sorry / have bought so
many caramels and macaroons this
term, sighed May, "but / think have
enough money left to get a small bas-
ket of fruit; white grapes and oranges
and such things" you might be sure
May would choose something to eat, s"
suggested Bertha, with merry glance
at the little girl, who was very small
and delicate looking; cher sweet tooth
is the largest part Of her But what
will YOU send Myrtle?' "Ah! that is a
secret, and YOU must wait and see. 1t
would make you all jealous if / should
tell YOU. Tomorrow is a half holiday,
and must 90 at once and ask permits
sion of madam 10 20 down town.
and Myrtle danced gaily out of the
room, her mercural spirits having
quite recovered from the depression
Fraulein's story had east over them.
Il don't call that fair grumbled
Daisy Dean; eve have told her our in
tentions. and she needn't make mys-
terry of hers And it was her own
proposition to send these love mis-
sivesi" put i'm May. Il call it decidedly
mean.n said Bertha land / don't be-
lievc her gift win he very grand after
all But 1 have a composition to write,
and must go at it right away" So il
was with rather indignant feelings
towards their schoolmate that
the three girls dispersed to their re-
spcctive tasks, for this quartette OF
maidcns were the only boarders in
Madame Ncnon's "Select School for
Young Ladies' and Children" the other
scholars coming for the day only; and
fortunately they generally agreed
remarkably well, ana were the warm
est and closest of friends.
The little Misunderstanding soon blew
over, however, for no one could long
Withstand Myrtle Madron's sweet win
ming ways, for quick and impulsive rs
She was, and apt % be carried away by
heidea of the moment, her intelligence
and sunny disposition made her gen.
eral favoritc with both teachers and
scholars. Her valentine, she had de
cided. should be small but exquisite
engraving that she had lately seen i'm ;
shop window. entitled. "St. Valentine,
Eve" and which she knew would de
light the art-loving Hilda, whose father
had been an artist, aud had bequeatheC
much of his artistic nature to his only
child; the hardest part of whose lotwa'
that she was compelled to pass herdayl
in an ugly, bare room, i'm "a cheap board
ing-house, where the green curtains
were ever distress, and the gaudy rec
and yellow carpet was actual pain, anC
often haunted her feverish dreams
was with q light heart and step, there
fore, that Myrtle, in her neat brown
cloth suit and hat and warm sealski
jacket, started brislly down the avenu
after school hours, on that bright 13u
81 February, the sunshine lighting al
her reddish-gold hairand her feet keep
ing time with the merry tinkling sleigl
bells thac resounded on all sides.
Il hope the picture viii come within
my means, for my quarterly allowance
is running altogether too low" SIN